Oracle Linux 6.5 vs. Oracle Linux 7.0 Beta Benchmarks Early benchmarks of Oracle Enterprise Linux 7.0 Beta 1 for a future article on Phoronix.com. ,,"Oracle Linux 6.5","Oracle Linux 7.0 Beta 1" Processor,,Intel Core i7-4960X @ 3.60GHz (12 Cores),Intel Core i7-4960X @ 3.60GHz (12 Cores) Motherboard,,MSI X79MA-GD45 (MS-7738) v1.0,MSI X79MA-GD45 (MS-7738) v1.0 Chipset,,Intel Xeon E5 v2/Core,Intel Ivytown DMI2 Memory,,8192MB,8192MB Disk,,1000GB Seagate ST1000DX001-1CM1,1000GB Seagate ST1000DX001-1CM1 + 128GB RVS02 SuperSpeed Graphics,,Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB,Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB Audio,,Realtek ALC892,Intel C600/X79 Monitor,,DELL S2409W,DELL S2409W Network,,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS,,OracleServer 6.5,OracleEverything 7.0 Kernel,,3.8.13-16.2.1.el6uek.x86_64 (x86_64),3.10.0-54.0.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64) Desktop,,GNOME 2.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.8.4 Display Server,,X Server 1.13.0,X Server 1.14.99.901 (1.15.0 RC 1) Display Driver,,radeon 7.1.99,radeon 7.2.99 OpenGL,,2.1 Mesa 9.2.0-devel Gallium 0.4,3.1 Mesa 9.2.2 Gallium 0.4 Compiler,,GCC 4.4.7 20120313,GCC 4.8.2 20131106 File-System,,ext4,xfs Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1920x1080 ,,"Oracle Linux 6.5","Oracle Linux 7.0 Beta 1" "PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,5001,5555 "Parboil - Test: OpenMP LBM (sec)",LIB,243.67,249.15 "Parboil - Test: OpenMP CUTCP (sec)",LIB,10.35,9.77 "Parboil - Test: OpenMP MRI-Q (sec)",LIB,20.66,15.47 "Rodinia - Test: OpenMP Leukocyte (sec)",LIB,24.67, "Rodinia - Test: OpenMP CFD Solver (sec)",LIB,62.40,63.59 "Rodinia - Test: OpenMP Streamcluster (sec)",LIB,33.46,33.84 "John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,8815,9406 "John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,32688667,15783667 "John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,130345,130518 "Timed Apache Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,24.37,23.74 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,53.77,53.45 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,30.48,17.67 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,53,56 "Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,9932.61,8515.98